[GRLUG] need some script help

[Jonathan Jesse]

Hrmm thanks for the link, I wonder if the version in Precise is the
"flawed" version as well?  Maybe I'll start a separate thread about using
something else to stream my video.


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Ana <anabob at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know for a fact that the Xbox can play mp4 files no problem. I think
> that the issue lies with minidnla. Taking care of the root issue is always
> better than putting together a "fix" that you constantly have to do every
> time you want to add more media.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna/forums/forum/879957/topic/3921557
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MiniDLNA
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Dave Chiodo <megadave at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Best to test.
>>
>> As Michael suggested, use "echo" in place of the "mv" to see what will
>> happen.
>>
>> I might suggest you get in the habit of normalizing filenames of stuff
>> you download to avoid spaces and other "special" characters that can
>> cause problems.
>>
>> There are various utilities than can help with that - search on google.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Yeah most of them have space in them so would either one work?
>> >
>> > Thanks for the quick response guys :)
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Dave Chiodo <megadave at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Gotta be wary of filenames with spaces though.
>> >>
>> >> For instance, if files were
>> >>
>> >> Movie1.mp4
>> >> Long Movie.mp4
>> >>
>> >> A for-loop on that could easily end up doing:
>> >>
>> >> mv Movie1.mp4 Movie1.avi
>> >> mv Long Long
>> >> mv Movie.mp4 Movie.avi
>> >>
>> >> Also gotta watch for .mp4 vs .MP4 - windows f/s are not case
>> >> sensitive, but *nix are.
>> >>
>> >> Movie.mp4 and Movie.MP4 are two different files on a *nix system and
>> >> MOVIE.mp4 is yet a third.
>> >>
>> >> As far as WHY the xbox doesn't work when the file is called mp4 and
>> >> does when its avi, its due to MS foolish use of file extensions
>> >> instead of contents of the file or something more standard to
>> >> determine what the type of data is.
>> >>
>> >> For a really long explanation of the issues, that is written from a
>> >> Mac perspective (OSX is *nix), see
>> >> http://arstechnica.com/apple/2001/08/metadata/
>> >>
>> >> (Sadly, its one of those spread-across-multiple-pages aticles and I
>> >> couldn't find a one-page version of it. Its also quite old, but its
>> >> points are still valid, even if they are now forgone lost-causes)
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Michael Glaske <mglaske at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > This should work..  beware though.. It's untested.. in BASH.
>> >> >
>> >> > for file in `find . -name \*.mp4`; do mv $file `echo $file | sed
>> >> > 's/\(.*\.\)mp4/\1avi/'` ; done
>> >> >
>> >> > If you want to test it first, replace 'mv $file' with 'echo'.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at gmail.com>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Hey GRLUGERS,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> New to scripting and all that but hoping to get some help out here.
>> >> >> I've
>> >> >> been using minidnla on my Ubuntu laptop to stream movies to my xbox
>> and
>> >> >> things are working very well.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> However I notice something... If I grab something off bittorent
>> chances
>> >> >> are it is a MP4 or a MKV file and my xbox can't stream it.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> For some reason if I rename the same file Big Bang Theory.mp4 to Big
>> >> >> Bang
>> >> >> Theory.avi the file will play on my xbox.  Not quite sure what
>> happens
>> >> >> in
>> >> >> the rename of the file that makes the magic work but it does.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> So I'm wondering if there is a script guru that could look at all my
>> >> >> files
>> >> >> that either named *.mp4 or *.mkv and rename it to whatever it was
>> .avi?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Make sense?
>> >> >>
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